PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Daily News
By Regina Medina
Philadelphia Daily News
This year’s issue of the Holy Spirit School yearbook was supposed to be special, a treasured keepsake to remember the 47-year-old Catholic school that’s set to close down Thursday.
Not anymore.
Parents and Packer Park community members are incensed with a parish decision to include a photograph of a smiling defrocked priest in the last Holy Spirit yearbook — next to a 1965 photograph of the eighth-grade graduating class. David C. Sicoli was featured prominently in the 2005 Grand Jury report, accused of molesting several boys during his 33-year ministry and was a former pastor at Holy Spirit Church. Sicoli was defrocked in 2008 after the Archdiocese logged 11 credible abuse claims against him.
He was never charged criminally, but many parents and residents in the parish blame Sicoli for the school’s eventual closure.
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